Improvement in stuffing hides aid skins



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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESEv PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PNTON, of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk, and State of' Massachusetts, have invented a. new and useful Machine for Stuiiing Hides or Skins; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section.

Figure 2, a transverse section g and Figure 3, a side elevation of the said machine. f v

The machine in common use for stutling hides with grease or oil consists of a peg-lined hollow cylinder or drum providedwith a means of introducing steam within it. In carrying out my invention I employ such a drum, shownv at A in the drawings, but, instead of introducing steam into lthe cylinder, and upon the grease therein, I'surround such cylinder by a case or box, B, for reception of the steam, and to enable the steam to heat the drum externally. In this case the rotary drum may be made of metal and its caseB be formed of wood.

In the drawings, a denotes the shapg of the drum; Z1 b Y), its pegs or arms projecting inward from its inner periphery. The induction pipe for supplying steam to the drum is shown at c, as opening into a small cistern, d, arranged within the case B, and underneath the drum.v T is a thermometer-,for determining the degree of heat within the case. A pinion, h, fixed on a. driving-shaft, t', supported by the case, engages with a gear, 7c, iixed to the side of the drum, the same serving to put the drum in revolution when the said shaft 4is in rotation. There should be applied to openings in the two contiguous sides of the drum and its case, doors c f, the object of such openings being to enable the hides and greaseto be introduced into the drum or the hides to be removed therefrom, as circumstances may require. Y l

It has been found, when steam-'is let into a drum with the hides and grease therein,'that by penetrating the hides it will cause them to 'resist the entrance fo the grease, 'out when the drum is heated by the steam applied to it externally theV hides and grease will be duly heated, and the grease will enter the hides to much better advantage. In fact, the operation of lstulng the hides can'be carried on in much less time, and there will be very much less water in the hides to be subsequently separated from; them.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention, is'- r,

The hide-stuing machine, as composed of. the cylinder A, and the steam case or box B, made and arranged substantially in manner and so as to operate as and for the-purpose stated.

WILLIAM PANTONA Witnesses:

R. E. EDDY, N.v P. Hm, Jr. 

